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Pathway Tutoring program connects teacher candidates to community youth
College of Education and Human Development
… candidates to community youth Submitted by Chris Hybels on The Pathway Tutoring program has provided opportunities for … exercise, like playing a game or finding out what motivates a student to learn,” says LaLonde. “So, the … teacher led. And for the last half of the session, students are reading a skill-level-appropriate decodable, and we’re …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/04/71518
Fulbright specialist envisions more conflict as Arctic ice melts
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… and economic competition will lead to more conflict in the Arctic region. They include Dr. Fritz Allhoff , a … workshop that developed realistic scenarios for what future Arctic conflicts might look like. The event, … Allhoff notes that as ice melts, constricted waterways are opened up, creating new and faster trade routes as well …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/07/47942
WMU gets final OK to offer classes in Punta Gorda and Tampa
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… Gorda and Tampa Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on The University plans to offer numerous programs in Florida. … program will be offered online. A multiyear process In 2015, WMU's Board of Trustees authorized the administration to … nationally recognized programs by providing more health care settings for clinical rotations. Expand the off-site …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/38888
Jazz students continue winning streak in DownBeat competition
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… Mich.—Western Michigan University jazz studies students and their instructors are upbeat after again earning multiple wins in DownBeat magazine's 41st annual Student Music Awards. In what is regarded as the most comprehensive competition for …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/06/47375
Freshwater studies graduate already making a splash in his field
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… making a splash in his field Submitted by Erin Flynn on "What I love most about the water is it contains a whole new world beneath its … out the perfect way to usher in the next wave of his career—donning his cap and gown on a paddleboard in Higgins …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/06/60101
WMU student recognized by Google, takes first place in competition
Haworth College of Business
… on Craig Ferry, junior marketing major, placed first in the Virtual Business Professional Project. KALAMAZOO, Mich.— … content, so much so that I felt it could be ready to share with senior stakeholders. The entire report flowed with … In fact, it felt like the team had great intuition into what the reader would want to know next. The method to parse …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/01/66824
Check campus office hours for Thanksgiving recess
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… or operate on limited hours Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 25-28 . Listed below are hours on Thanksgiving Day for select University offices and services. Students, employees and the public are encouraged to call ahead to make sure that a …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66274
Sinnie Yzenbaard obituary
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… study coordinator at Western Michigan University in what is now Extended University Programs, died Sept. 12, … 2017 . She was 101. Yzenbaard, of Kalamazoo, joined the staff in 1964 and retired in 1979 after 14 years of service to the University. She was a lifelong area resident. Remembrances The family obituary and message …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/45876
Trustees update graduate residency policy, change nonresident graduate tuition structure and rates
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… KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Acting at its formal meeting on Nov. 6 , the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees adopted a … policy. Beginning summer II in 2020, graduate students who are admitted and enrolled for the first time at WMU will … the nonresident graduate student tuition rate will be 1.5 times the resident rate for students at WMU’s main campus …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/11/57018
Prescribed burns OK'd at WMU's two nature preserves
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… nature preserves in Kalamazoo could be burned soon if weather conditions allow. The Kalamazoo fire marshal approved a … scattered buckthorn brush piles in the Kleinstuck Preserve are to be burned near the corner of Chevy Chase Boulevard … burned in the 274-acre Asylum Lake Preserve in 2003, 2005, 2007 and in the 48-acre Kleinstuck Preserve in 2013 and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/45596